The parties of the presidential majority – the Republic in March (LRM), the modem, act and horizons – launch Monday night in Paris a common political association to prepare the presidential election and the legislative of 2022.
Le Monde with AFP
It’s been almost two years since she was expected by the faithful of Emmanuel Macron. Despite long negotiations around the form she had to take, the “common house” gathering the parties of the presidential majority will be good on the day, Monday, November 29 at the end of the day, from the mutuality room in Paris. Baptized “Citizen Ensemble!”, The association brings together the parties the Republic (LRM), the modem, act and horizons, the new party launched by Edouard Philippe. She launches the Strategic Ball of the Parties as the presidential and legislative elections of 2022.
The inauguration is at 6:30 pm in a strongly symbolic place for Macronia: it is here that Emmanuel Macron in July 2016, while he was not yet a candidate for the presidential election, had held his first meeting. For the event, 1,700 people are thus expected on Monday at the home of the mutuality, under sanitary pass condition and port of the mask, while the country is experiencing a new increase in CVIV-19 cases.
Coordinate to prepare 2022 but also after Macron
The project of “common house” was restarted at the very beginning of autumn. If the idea was launched almost two years ago by the modem and is brought by its leader, François Bayrou is the question of the structure that had so far remained outstanding. Party and majority leaders in Parliament, several times in the last fifteen days, finally decided, under the impetus of the former Prime Minister and Mayor of Le Havre, Edouard Philippe, to house the nebula of parties to The majority in the form of political association.
These have also solved the sensitive issue of legislative election investitures. If no commission of inauguration will see the day, leaving each party the freedom to hold his, the common structure will allow the parties of the presidential majority to coordinate. “We will look at which is best placed to defend and embody the presidential project in each territory”, by removing any logic “arithmetic or boutique”, assured Mr. Ferrand to West-France, Sunday, November 28th.
Citizen set! Will thus be “composed of different personalities and different sensibilities” and “will allow reinforced cooperation between them,” summed up the President of the National Assembly. The main issue is to create a block around the head of state for his re-election campaign, but also to “work on what will be the future assembly and therefore the future majority” around Mr. Macron, explained On France Inter Minister (modem) relations with Parliament, Marc Fesau.
A lack of parity pointed
In addition, it is also a question of preparing the post-Emmanuel Macron, “consolidating the central pole” of the Assembly, explained the Assembly. The flexible and scalable structure of the “common house” thus promotes the widening of the majority on the right and on the left but also the internal reconciliations between parties, as between LRM and modem who wish to accentuate their proximity, or between the two small parties of the Macronian right wing, act and horizons, as Edouard Philippe recently pointed out.
Citizen set! nevertheless knows an internal criticism. While four men should lead to the Joint Chairpers – Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Bayrou, Mr. Philippe and Prime Minister Jean Castex -, the lack of female figures at the top of the new instance is severely decried. For many elutes LRM, the absence of women in positions of responsibility within the majority, a problem already raised several times during the five-year, enters the total contradiction with the commitments of Mr. Macron on this subject.
A subject more than central while, in the coming days, the Executive Committee of Ensemble Citizens!, which should be composed of twenty members, as well as its strategic committee must be trained.